Yahoo and Its New Mobile Service
February 18, 2009
Yahoo News posted “Yahoo Mobile Aims to Channel Your Inner iPhone” here. Yahoo access on my various mobile devices seemed to require quite a bit of menu shuffling. I also found the interface’s refusal to remember my log in name somewhat idiosyncratic. But the system worked. The new service as described in the news story seemed to me to be a giant step forward. The news release said:
Yahoo Mobile will be released in three versions — one for the mobile Web, one for the iPhone, and one for other smartphones… Yahoo’s onePlace is also available in all three editions. The service lets a user access and manage, from a single location, favorite content such as news topics and sources, RSS feeds, sports scores, weather conditions, stock quotes, blogs, movie theaters, or horoscopes… In the smartphone version, users can also use oneSearch’s voice-search feature simply by talking. It also offers maps; an integrated mini-version of the popular mobile Web browser Opera; and widgets, which are small applications that provide various services that can be mixed and matched.
I fired up my smartphone and navigated to Yahoo, following the same steps I had used prior to my test on February 17, 2009, at 5 pm Eastern. Instead of a new Yahoo service or the old Yahoo service, here’s what I saw:
Sigh. I understand that new Yahoo is not available, but what about old Yahoo?
Stephen Arnold, February 18, 2009
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